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in A. eos and the fore wings paler yellow at the base ; the black 

 discoidal spot is less strongly marked, and is followed by three short 

 dusky lines on the costa ; the hind margin is grey in the middle, 

 bordered by a suffused blackish line running from the tip to the 

 anal angle ; on the inner margin, within the anal angle, is a short 

 curved blackish line ; nearer the base the inner margin is reddish. 

 Hind wings beneath with a black spot at the end of the cell, and 

 three obsolete greenish lines beyond (the middle most obscure), 

 terminating in a black blotch, on which stands a yellowish-white 

 spot, the two seen above having become united beneath. 



The wings are rather less falcate than in A, eos, and the hind wings 

 have only one tooth within the anal angle. 



The example of this species was received by the Dublin Museum 

 as " Ambulyx lycidas, Brazil ; " but M, C. Oberthiir of Rennes, 

 who has kindly compared the figure with the type of that species 

 (described by Boisduval, Lep. Het. i. p. 191) from Brazil, informs 

 me that the outline of the wings (which I have reproduced here from 

 his sketch, Plate XXVII. fig. A) is very different. 



4. Protoparce abadonna. (Plate XXVII. fig. 3.) 



Sphinx abadonna, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 435 (1/98). 



Protoparce abadonna, Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 238. 



Sphinx godarti, Macl. King's Survey of Coasts of Austraha, ii. 

 p. 463 (1827). 



I am glad to have an opportunity of figuring this species, from a 

 specimen from Queensland in the Dublin Museum ; it is singular that 

 it has not yet been obtained for the British Museum. It is quite 

 distinct from the common Australian P. distans, Butl. Macleay's 

 description is so good as to render it unnecessary to redescribe the 

 species here. I believe it to be P. abadonna, described by 

 Fabricius from the East Indies, and I therefore retain his name 

 provisionally, though I do not feel quite so certain of the correctness 

 of this identification. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVII. 



Pig. 1. Amhilyx eos, S , p- 269. 



2. tithonus, sp. n., p. 270. 



3. Protoparce abadonna, p. 271. 



A. Outline of wing of Ainbtilyx lycidas, p. 271. 



